#WordPress.com to WordPress.org

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How to Migrate Your Website from WordPress.com to WordPress.org

If you started your website on WordPress.com but now want more control and flexibility, migrating to a self-hosted WordPress.org site is a logical next step. In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through the process of migrating your website from WordPress.com to WordPress.org seamlessly. From exporting your content to setting up hosting and installing WordPress, we’ve got you covered. Let’s get started about migrate your website!

EXPORTING CONTENT FROM WORDPRESS.COM

The first step in the migration process is exporting your content from your WordPress.com site. We’ll show you how to generate an XML export file containing all your posts, pages, comments, and media files. We’ll also cover any special considerations for specific content types, ensuring a smooth transition.

SETTING UP HOSTING AND DOMAIN

To move to WordPress.org, you’ll need to set up hosting and get a domain name. We’ll guide you through the process of choosing the right hosting provider, configuring your hosting account, and linking your domain to your new WordPress.org site. We’ll also provide tips on selecting a reliable hosting plan that meets your website’s requirements.

INSTALLING AND CONFIGURING WORDPRESS

Once you have your hosting and domain in place, we’ll show you how to install WordPress on your new self-hosted site. We’ll cover both manual and one-click installation methods, and provide step-by-step instructions for configuring your WordPress settings, including permalinks, general settings, and essential plugins to enhance your website’s functionality.

IMPORTING CONTENT TO WORDPRESS.ORG

After setting up WordPress, it’s time to import your content from the exported file. We’ll demonstrate how to use the WordPress import tool to seamlessly import your posts, pages, comments, and media files into your new site. We’ll address any potential challenges or issues that may arise during the import process.

REDIRECTING VISITORS AND PRESERVING SEO

To ensure a smooth transition for your website visitors and preserve your SEO rankings, we’ll explain the importance of setting up proper redirects. We’ll provide guidance on implementing 301 redirects from your old WordPress.com site to your new WordPress.org site. Also, for updating internal links and notifying search engines about the migration.

By following this guide, you’ll successfully migrate your website as well as, gain more control, flexibility, and customization options. Enjoy the freedom and endless possibilities that come with self-hosting your WordPress site!

[jonahyawi]

WordPress.com vs WordPress.org: Which Is Better For Startups?

Do you want to learn the differences between WordPress.com and WordPress.org? Yeah. Continue reading. Nah. Jump the queue and read ‘How to Get the Most Out of the Free WordPress App on the App Store’ WordPress.com and WordPress.org are actually two different platforms. So, here’s what you need to know as a start up enterprise if you are starting up an online business website with…

[alejandrocanosaescritor]

Diferencia entre Wordpress.com y Wordpress.org

Wordpress es el CMS más utilizado en internet ,pero seguramente alguna gente no sepa nada de su historia ni quienen fueron los que lo crearon. Wordpress empezó siendo como Blogger solo para crear y gestionar un blog pero a día de hoy puedes crear cualquier aplicación con él. Pero antes de ver la diferencia entre estas dos plataformas comencemos con su historia.

Historia de Wordpress

Dos programadores Matt Mullenweg y Mike Little utilizaban una aplicación de creación de blog conocida como b2/cafelog y decidieron en 2003 mejorar esta aplicación. Asi que el 27 de Mayo del 2003 salió a la luz la primera versión de Wordpress ,la 0.70,el 4 de Enero del 2004 salio la versión 1.0 dedicada al musico de Jazz Miles Davis. Esa traición sigue y hasta ahora todas las versiones mayores de Wordpress tienen un nombre clave dedicado a un músico de Jazz. Como podeís ver esta herramienta que ha día de hoy es la más utilizada para la creación de paginas web se creó antes incluso que Facebook e Youtube. Facebook se creó el 4 de febrero de 2004 y Youtube el 11 de Enero de 2005 y creo que de alguna manerá ayudo a la creación de estas redes sociales . Facebook se creó en php y Youtube también entenderas ahora la razón de hablarte de esto.

Requisitos necesarios para utilizar Wordpress

No es necesario que sepas programar pero si saber las tecnologías que necesitas para utilizarlo. Wordpress está escrito en php y la versión actual de php está en 8.3 . Además tendrás que tener un servidor web como Apache y una base de datos como MYSQL. Wordpress guarda toda su información en MYSQL,incluido el contenido de tus artículos y la rutas de tus archivos . Lo bueno es que se puede utilizar la versión gratuita de esta base de datos porque hace años fue comprada por Oracle. Hay dos formas de utilizar wordpress ,coger un hosting web como el de Hostinger, que yo utilizo y que es la mejor opción del mercado. O también coger directamente la plataforma de wordpress.com. En la siguientes secciones os hablo de wordpress.com y de wordpress.org,que son estas plataformas y cuando coger una y cuando coger otra.

Wordpress.org

Esta plataforma es el hogar del proyecto de wordpress,es su sitio oficial,donde encontrarás todos los recursos necesarios para empezar tu blog o web de manera gratuita y libre. La licencia que tiene es GPL ,tienes un soporte técnico gratuito y la página con plugins y temas gratuitos desde donde puedes descargar todo . El problema es si te da terror hacer tú todo ,desde administrar el hosting ,comprar el dominio ,crear los correos ,ect. Por eso no te preocupes voy a crear unas masterclass gratis en mi canal alejandrocanosaescritor . Tendré dos, una para saber como gestionar hostinger ,cualquiera de los dos servicios que te recomiendo abajo , y otra de como instalar wordpress y gestionarlo. Tambíen he de crear numeros vídeos de como utilizar los plugins más utilizados ,de servicios de marketing o de SEO e incluso de los servicios de hostinger . Hostinger en 3 pasos te permite instalar wordpress ,no tienes ni que poner correo porque ya lo coge de tu cuenta ,solo elegir el dominio. El dominio te lo regala al coger un plan. No te preocupes, elige cualquiera luego yo te enseñaré como instalar. Incluso si necesitas una mucho más profesional te recomendaré muchas en función de tu sector o necesidades. Si necesitas un blog como el mio para empezar y solo quieres tener presencia en internet para tu negocio el plan premium web hosting es ideal. Además al comprar un dominio te regalan el plan de email gratuito ,tienes hasta 100 cuentas de correo de 1 GB cada una. Te dejo las caracteristicas y una imagen de mi plan para que veas que yo utilizo Hostinger . Lo que te digo es verdad ,de hecho estos descuentos que tienes son gracias a mi plan .

Este es el plan Premium Web Hosting que te recomiendo para páginas web y blog ,es precio por año,yo te recomiendo que compres varios años porque luego sube.

Premium web hosting Si vas a tener un blog con membresías o una academia online ,o un foro te recomiendo este plan de Business Web Hosting porque tiene más capacidad ,es el que tengo yo.

Y luego es este plan Cloud Startup que es el que quiero coger porque quiero crear una academia online para isqbhub.

Plan Cloud Startup de hostinger Este último plan es para aquellas empresas que quieran tener un ecommerce ,una academia online con bastantes usuarios ,100 a la vez, o empresas que ofrezcan hosting y desarrollo web. Abajo te dejo un vídeo donde te hablo de todas las características de estos planes . https://youtu.be/snL7GM-LPxc

Wordpress.com

Wordpress.com es una web de la empresa Automattic ,que ofrece un modo sencillo de tener una web de manera rápida. Esta versión está limitada y modificada en función del plan que elijas. En este caso utiliza un hosting web y ya te olvidas totalmente de administrar tu hosting. Esa parte se encargan ellos tu solo tienes que diseñar tu web de una manera muy sencilla. De hecho es parecido a Wix pero mucho mejor porque puedes instalar los plugins y plantillas gratuitas de wordpress.org y se integra con cualquier servicio externo . Existen estas dos plataformas porque Matt Mullenweg creo la empresa Automattic que gestiona wordpress.com ,que como sabes es uno de los fundadores. Para utilizar esta versión solo tienes que registrarte en este enlace y puedes utilizar la versión gratuita pero va estar limitada y con un dominio tusitio.wordpress.com . Si quieres no estar limitado puedes coger alguno de estos planes .

Si te interesa algunos de estos planes puedes verlos aquí. Como puedes ver por 25 euros al mes te ahorras el tener que gestionar un hosting ,el plan business es el mejor para lo que necesita cualquiera. Tiene estas características : Páginas, entradas, usuarios y visitantes ilimitados Dominio gratuito durante el primer año (estilo paginaweb.com) Experiencia de navegación sin anuncios para tus visitantes Todos los temas premium Servicio de soporte prioritario ininterrumpido de nuestro equipo de expertos Estadísticas premium Personalización de fuentes y colores en todo el sitio Conexión con Google Analytics Subir vídeos Instalar plugins SFTP/SSH, WP-CLI, comandos de Git y despliegues de GitHub Lo maravilloso es que te ahorras dinero , el tener que comprar un tema premium que suelen valer entre 30 a 80 euros al año. También la plataforma de vídeo , los 12 euros al mes de Vimeo que serian 144 al año en total 200 euros. Además tienes soporte premium ,no tienes que andar que preguntando en los foros que pueden tardar 3 días en responder y ganas dinero.

Plataforma AdWords

Wordpress.com te paga por cada 1000 impresiones (CPM) gracias a su plataforma WordAds,no pagan mucho y hasta 100 dólares no te pagan por Paypal. Para que te paguen tienes que comprar un plan y solicitar entrar en su plan de pago por publicidad de WordAds . Seguir ese último enlace , os hablan de si compensa ,al parecer esa persona gano 100 euros por publicidad . Por lo que ví no tenía muchas impresiones ,entre 22.000 y 30.000 . Este modelo no se basa en que hagan clic se basan en que visiten o vean una página donde hay publicidad. Os dejo un vídeo de como crear una cuenta en Wordpress.com y configurar todo . https://youtu.be/7hIj2jXMvqg Bueno yo de ti no lo pensaba más si pasas de administrar un hosting compra un plan en wordpress.com. Si por el contrario te ves capaz pillate el plan de hosting Business Web Hosting Read the full article

[thedogladysden]

TINKERING WITH WORDPRESS 🛠️🤔😥👌 #BloggingCommunity

To my WordPress friends: Over the past year, I’ve made many new blogging connections and I’m thrilled about that! What’s not so thrilling is that my self-hosted wordpress.org site seems to be less user-friendly than some on wordpress.com. To that end, I’ve been tinkering madly with the inner workings of The Doglady’s Den to make it more accessible… TINKERING WITH WORDPRESS 🛠️🤔😥👌 #dogladysden…

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Some quotes:

The WordPress Foundation claims its reason for existence is ”to ensure free access, in perpetuity, to the software projects we support.” It’s quite obvious the man who helms the foundation, who authors the news, and who holds pretty much all the cards when it comes to WordPress, isn’t interested in any ideals but his own.

Regardless of how it all shakes out, though: this only reinforces my stance that Matt’s power must be severely curtailed. Matt’s intent to use the monopolistic powers at his disposal to absorb and neutralize his business’s only real threat and competition, all over a sudden extortive rules change, is perhaps the most striking sign yet that far too much power is concentrated in his unfit hands (even if said power does eventually turn out to be less than he seems to think it is). Yet again, Matt comes off just like a mafia boss. “Nice business you’ve got there. Looks like it’s really feeling the squeeze lately. Sure would be a shame if that bad stuff kept happening, huh? You’d stand to lose an awful lot. But maybe we could reach some kind of an agreement…?” If Matt’s lawyers really aren’t telling him not to say stuff like this, you’d expect him to at least have the self-awareness to realize how it comes off. …Actually, I take it back. I wouldn’t expect that from him. Not anymore

i really wish the Matt Mullenweg Meltdown was easier to follow and explain because his public career suicide is extremely funny and i think i only understand about 1/4th of it fully

[ottoshelpfulhacks]

A Beginner's Comprehensive Guide to Transferring Your WordPress.com Site to WordPress.org

Are you ready to take your WordPress website to the next level? If you’re currently using WordPress.com, you may have considered transitioning to WordPress.org. While both platforms offer great features for creating a website, WordPress.org provides more flexibility, control, and customization options. This comprehensive guide will walk you through the process of transferring your WordPress.com…

[tinystepsforward]

autocrattic (more matt shenanigans, not tumblr this time)

I am almost definitely not the right person for this writeup, but I'm closer than most people on here, so here goes! This is all open-source tech drama, and I take my time laying out the context, but the short version is: Matt tried to extort another company, who immediately posted receipts, and now he's refusing to log off again. The long version is... long.

If you don't need software context, scroll down/find the "ok tony that's enough. tell me what's actually happening" heading, or just go read the pink sections. Or look at this PDF.

the background

So. Matt's original Good Idea was starting WordPress with fellow developer Mike Little in 2003, which is free and open-source software (FOSS) that was originally just for blogging, but now powers lots of websites that do other things. In particular, Automattic acquired WooCommerce a long time ago, which is free online store software you can run on WordPress.

FOSS is... interesting. It's a world that ultimately is powered by people who believe deeply that information and resources should be free, but often have massive blind spots (for example, Wikipedia's consistently had issues with bias, since no amount of "anyone can edit" will overcome systemic bias in terms of who has time to edit or is not going to be driven away by the existing contributor culture). As with anything else that people spend thousands of hours doing online, there's drama. As with anything else that's technically free but can be monetized, there are:

Heaps of companies and solo developers who profit off WordPress themes, plugins, hosting, and other services;

Conflicts between volunteer contributors and for-profit contributors;

Annoying founders who get way too much credit for everything the project has become.

the WordPress ecosystem

A project as heavily used as WordPress (some double-digit percentage of the Internet uses WP. I refuse to believe it's the 43% that Matt claims it is, but it's a pretty large chunk) can't survive just on the spare hours of volunteers, especially in an increasingly monetised world where its users demand functional software, are less and less tech or FOSS literate, and its contributors have no fucking time to build things for that userbase.

Matt runs Automattic, which is a privately-traded, for-profit company. The free software is run by the WordPress Foundation, which is technically completely separate (wordpress.org). The main products Automattic offers are WordPress-related: WordPress.com, a host which was designed to be beginner-friendly; Jetpack, a suite of plugins which extend WordPress in a whole bunch of ways that may or may not make sense as one big product; WooCommerce, which I've already mentioned. There's also WordPress VIP, which is the fancy bespoke five-digit-plus option for enterprise customers. And there's Tumblr, if Matt ever succeeds in putting it on WordPress. (Every Tumblr or WordPress dev I know thinks that's fucking ridiculous and impossible. Automattic's hiring for it anyway.)

Automattic devotes a chunk of its employees toward developing Core, which is what people in the WordPress space call WordPress.org, the free software. This is part of an initiative called Five for the Future — 5% of your company's profits off WordPress should go back into making the project better. Many other companies don't do this.

There are lots of other companies in the space. GoDaddy, for example, barely gives back in any way (and also sucks). WP Engine is the company this drama is about. They don't really contribute to Core. They offer relatively expensive WordPress hosting, as well as providing a series of other WordPress-related products like LocalWP (local site development software), Advanced Custom Fields (the easiest way to set up advanced taxonomies and other fields when making new types of posts. If you don't know what this means don't worry about it), etc.

Anyway. Lots of strong personalities. Lots of for-profit companies. Lots of them getting invested in, or bought by, private equity firms.

Matt being Matt, tech being tech

As was said repeatedly when Matt was flipping out about Tumblr, all of the stuff happening at Automattic is pretty normal tech company behaviour. Shit gets worse. People get less for their money. WordPress.com used to be a really good place for people starting out with a website who didn't need "real" WordPress — for $48 a year on the Personal plan, you had really limited features (no plugins or other customisable extensions), but you had a simple website with good SEO that was pretty secure, relatively easy to use, and 24-hour access to Happiness Engineers (HEs for short. Bad job title. This was my job) who could walk you through everything no matter how bad at tech you were. Then Personal plan users got moved from chat to emails only. Emails started being responded to by contractors who didn't know as much as HEs did and certainly didn't get paid half as well. Then came AI, and the mandate for HEs to try to upsell everyone things they didn't necessarily need. (This is the point at which I quit.)

But as was said then as well, most tech CEOs don't publicly get into this kind of shitfight with their users. They're horrid tyrants, but they don't do it this publicly.

ok tony that's enough. tell me what's actually happening

WordCamp US, one of the biggest WordPress industry events of the year, is the backdrop for all this. It just finished.

There are.... a lot of posts by Matt across multiple platforms because, as always, he can't log off. But here's the broad strokes.

Sep 17

Matt publishes a wanky blog post about companies that profit off open source without giving back. It targets a specific company, WP Engine.

Compare the Five For the Future pages from Automattic and WP Engine, two companies that are roughly the same size with revenue in the ballpark of half a billion. These pledges are just a proxy and aren’t perfectly accurate, but as I write this, Automattic has 3,786 hours per week (not even counting me!), and WP Engine has 47 hours. WP Engine has good people, some of whom are listed on that page, but the company is controlled by Silver Lake, a private equity firm with $102 billion in assets under management. Silver Lake doesn’t give a dang about your Open Source ideals. It just wants a return on capital. So it’s at this point that I ask everyone in the WordPress community to vote with your wallet. Who are you giving your money to? Someone who’s going to nourish the ecosystem, or someone who’s going to frack every bit of value out of it until it withers?

(It's worth noting here that Automattic is funded in part by BlackRock, who Wikipedia calls "the world's largest asset manager".)

Sep 20 (WCUS final day)

WP Engine puts out a blog post detailing their contributions to WordPress.

Matt devotes his keynote/closing speech to slamming WP Engine.

He also implies people inside WP Engine are sending him information.

For the people sending me stuff from inside companies, please do not do it on your work device. Use a personal phone, Signal with disappearing messages, etc. I have a bunch of journalists happy to connect you with as well. #wcus — Twitter I know private equity and investors can be brutal (read the book Barbarians at the Gate). Please let me know if any employee faces firing or retaliation for speaking up about their company's participation (or lack thereof) in WordPress. We'll make sure it's a big public deal and that you get support. — Tumblr

Matt also puts out an offer live at WordCamp US:

“If anyone of you gets in trouble for speaking up in favor of WordPress and/or open source, reach out to me. I’ll do my best to help you find a new job.” — source tweet, RTed by Matt

He also puts up a poll asking the community if WP Engine should be allowed back at WordCamps.

Sep 21

Matt writes a blog post on the WordPress.org blog (the official project blog!): WP Engine is not WordPress.

He opens this blog post by claiming his mom was confused and thought WP Engine was official.

The blog post goes on about how WP Engine disabled post revisions (which is a pretty normal thing to do when you need to free up some resources), therefore being not "real" WordPress. (As I said earlier, WordPress.com disables most features for Personal and Premium plans. Or whatever those plans are called, they've been renamed like 12 times in the last few years. But that's a different complaint.)

Sep 22: More bullshit on Twitter. Matt makes a Reddit post on r/Wordpress about WP Engine that promptly gets deleted. Writeups start to come out:

Search Engine Journal: WordPress Co-Founder Mullenweg Sparks Backlash

TechCrunch: Matt Mullenweg calls WP Engine a ‘cancer to WordPress’ and urges community to switch providers

Sep 23 onward

Okay, time zones mean I can't effectively sequence the rest of this.

Matt defends himself on Reddit, casually mentioning that WP Engine is now suing him.

Also here's a decent writeup from someone involved with the community that may be of interest.

WP Engine drops the full PDF of their cease and desist, which includes screenshots of Matt apparently threatening them via text.

Twitter link | Direct PDF link

This PDF includes some truly fucked texts where Matt appears to be trying to get WP Engine to pay him money unless they want him to tell his audience at WCUS that they're evil.

Matt, after saying he's been sued and can't talk about it, hosts a Twitter Space and talks about it for a couple hours.

He also continues to post on Reddit, Twitter, and on the Core contributor Slack.

Here's a comment where he says WP Engine could have avoided this by paying Automattic 8% of their revenue.

Another, 20 hours ago, where he says he's being downvoted by "trolls, probably WPE employees"

At some point, Matt updates the WordPress Foundation trademark policy. I am 90% sure this was him — it's not legalese and makes no fucking sense to single out WP Engine.

Old text: The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks and you are free to use it in any way you see fit. New text: The abbreviation “WP” is not covered by the WordPress trademarks, but please don’t use it in a way that confuses people. For example, many people think WP Engine is “WordPress Engine” and officially associated with WordPress, which it’s not. They have never once even donated to the WordPress Foundation, despite making billions of revenue on top of WordPress.

Sep 25: Automattic puts up their own legal response.

anyway this fucking sucks

This is bigger than anything Matt's done before. I'm so worried about my friends who're still there. The internal ramifications have... been not great so far, including that Matt's naturally being extra gung-ho about "you're either for me or against me and if you're against me then don't bother working your two weeks".

Despite everything, I like WordPress. (If you dig into this, you'll see plenty of people commenting about blocks or Gutenberg or React other things they hate. Unlike many of the old FOSSheads, I actually also think Gutenberg/the block editor was a good idea, even if it was poorly implemented.)

I think that the original mission — to make it so anyone can spin up a website that's easy enough to use and blog with — is a good thing. I think, despite all the ways being part of FOSS communities since my early teens has led to all kinds of racist, homophobic and sexual harm for me and for many other people, that free and open-source software is important.

So many people were already burning out of the project. Matt has been doing this for so long that those with long memories can recite all the ways he's wrecked shit back a decade or more. Most of us are exhausted and need to make money to live. The world is worse than it ever was.

Social media sucks worse and worse, and this was a world in which people missed old webrings, old blogs, RSS readers, the world where you curated your own whimsical, unpaid corner of the Internet. I started actually actively using my own WordPress blog this year, and I've really enjoyed it.

And people don't want to deal with any of this.

The thing is, Matt's right about one thing: capital is ruining free open-source software. What he's wrong about is everything else: the idea that WordPress.com isn't enshittifying (or confusing) at a much higher rate than WP Engine, the idea that WP Engine or Silver Lake are the only big players in the field, the notion that he's part of the solution and not part of the problem.

But he's started a battle where there are no winners but the lawyers who get paid to duke it out, and all the volunteers who've survived this long in an ecosystem increasingly dominated by big money are giving up and leaving.

Anyway if you got this far, consider donating to someone on gazafunds.com. It'll take much less time than reading this did.

[hesperocyon-lesbian]

Matt decided to frivolously pick a fight with a major player in the Wordpress ecosystem, fucked over all that company’s hosted users out of spite, accidentally revealed that there might not be any distinction between the non-profit Wordpress.org and the for profit Wordpress.com, then decided that instead of fixing the ways he’s fucked up the best thing he could do is go on Safari. At least it’s keeping him from inflammatory posts I guess

[racefortheironthrone]

According to this article, they're discussing an opt-out model of harvesting data, which is definitively worse than an opt-in model (because a lot of people are not going to go through the logistical hurdles to avoid their stuff getting stolen) and very much a bandaid on a open wound.

Needless to say, everyone should be screaming about this to @staff because the more friction the better, and backing everything up if they need to shut shit down rather than have their work be "legally" stolen by a bunch of Silicon Valley vultures who are all going to lose their shirts in a couple years.

Not exactly sure what Plan B I'm going to go with yet, but needless to say my interest in getting an independently hosted wordpress.org blog (because that's distinct from wordpress.com) and/or checking out Squarespace or the like has just gone way up.

[girlfriendsofthegalaxy]

tuesday again 10/1/2024

come getcher BOY in HOUSTON TX limited time DEAL he will be going to the shelter where they hopefully have more resources to place FIV+ cats on FRIDAY!!! he has gotten so sleek and healthy looking after only a month of unlimited kibble he will be SUCH a nice silly companion for someone but unfortunately that someone is not me

^worried about the air purifier turning on

listening

OWW. feat BUBBLE by Halo Boy is fun bc it’s fun to yell “gimme love bites like OWW!” brain empty just songs that are fun to blast in the car. not quite a candidate for the “SOMEBODY COME FUCK THIS (GAY)” playlist but certainly worthy of inclusion on the “SOMEBODY COME FUCK THIS (NOT GAY)” playlist

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reading

i have a lot of uncomplimentary thoughts about frank lloyd wright. part of them revolve around the fact that buildings are really not meant to last forever, especially experimental buildings made with experimental materials. i am furious, however, that a cryptocurrency grifter couple bought his only skyscraper for $10 to "save it from bankruptcy" from a tiny nonprofit, seem to be hacking it up to sell the furnishings in pieces, and have put the building up for commercial sale on a site mostly used for fast food franchises and strip malls. the building, like many frank lloyd wright buildings, is in pretty rough shape. i've seen some walkthroughs and video tours and there's a ton of water damage and then extra water damage from oklahoma winter ice. i do not know if the building as a whole is reasonably salvageable without tens of millions put into it and a new foundation put in place to take care of it.

Liz Waytkus, the executive director of Docomomo US, an organization that works to preserve modern architecture, said it strongly opposes any sale of the Wright materials. “They’re trafficked goods,” Waytkus said. “The same that you would say of pottery or vases from Egypt or Mesopotamia that were obtained through illegal ways, these pieces from Frank Lloyd Wright should be thought of in the same exact way.”

i think the above quote is a little dramatic. what the crypto couple are doing is more in bad taste than anything, bc they do own the building. in my heart of hearts, i do think pieces and fixtures designed specifically for a site should stay with the site as long as reasonably possible. they're not going to look or function quite the same anywhere else. this is the unfortunate reality of getting a superstar architect to design The Whole Site and not just the building, you're kind of (in good taste and not legally) obligated to continue to preserve The Whole Site and not just the building.

another in the "not technically illegal but in bad taste" file, for both sides imo but i do think the misbehavior is greater on one side. idk if matt is like Unwell, or if he has tech founder brain and it's simply been more visible lately. oh my god i looked up how old he was (40) and he is local to me. ive probably seen him patio dining somewhere or walked past him at the rodeo and simply haven't noticed

But in a dispute that’s meant to clarify what is and isn’t WordPress, Mullenweg risks blurring the lines even more. WordPress.org and WordPress.com both have a point — but it looks an awful lot like they’re working together to make it.

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watching

kind of a light week? i don’t have anything particularly interesting to say about any of these.

i did not plan this bc i was kidnapped last minute by my bestie to see Howl’s Moving Castle in theaters, which was a very fun movie to see on the big screen. i have not seen a movie in theaters since Birds of Prey in early 2020, kind of scary to be inside a theater again! wish covid had not so thoroughly broken my health and confidence and i also wish covid was Over over instead of a constantly rolling crisis!!

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playing

i am going to preface this section with two facts: 1) i have been playing genshin impact since version 1.0, before the second major region in the game came out and 2) i have been unemployed since january and have spent more hours per day playing this game than really anyone should in the past couple months.

ive set a bunch of very silly goals for myself bc genshin impact is largely a game about making your own fun within the grindy gacha framework and i have hit two and a half of them. you can "ascend" a character six different times to up stats by a decent percentage, and i have now ascended all 64 characters the maximum 6 times. the last one was heizou bc 1) fuck a cop and 2) fuck the machine boss in the chasm for his mats. why did THREE characters need these mats. wretched.

my next goal is to get all my characters to friendship level 10. you can increase this mostly by spending the in-game renewable resource "resin". getting your characters to friendship level 10 has no in-game benefits but does give you a fun little namecard for ur profile. i have been prioritizing my five-star characters and then going through the nations' characters in order. ive been done with the mondstadt kids for a while, i just maxed out my last five-star (dehya) today. as u can see by this list sorted by friendship level, i have five liyue characters and two inazuma characters left and just buckets and oodles of sumeru and fontaine characters.

i haven't really done much with the newest natlan character, kachina, bc i do not enjoy playing as the small children characters. there are so many tall hot ladies in this game. speaking of, the next character i will be pulling for is this tall drink of water

i have also caught one of every catachable animal! this one was very irritating bc u can only buy five nets a week. finding this one specific lizard was also very irritating. none of the point in the desert the official game map assured me were spawn points were actually spawning for some reason. had to go to several underwater caves and cross my fingers

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making

fallow week

[technofeudalism]

Automattic, the company that owns WordPress.com, is required to remove a controversial login checkbox from WordPress.org and let WP Engine back into its ecosystem after a judge granted WP Engine a preliminary injunction in its ongoing lawsuit.  In addition to removing the checkbox—which requires users to denounce WP Engine before proceeding—the preliminary injunction orders that Automattic is enjoined from “blocking, disabling, or interfering with WP Engine’s and/or its employees’, users’, customers’, or partners’ access to wordpress.org” or “interfering with WP Engine’s control over, or access to, plugins or extensions (and their respective directory listings) hosted on wordpress.org that were developed, published, or maintained by WP Engine,” the order states. In the immediate aftermath of the decision, Automattic founder and CEO Matt Mullenweg asked for his account to be deleted from the Post Status Slack, which is a popular community for businesses and people who work on WordPress’s open-source tools. 

“It's hard to imagine wanting to continue to working on WordPress after this,” he wrote in that Slack, according to a screenshot viewed by 404 Media. “I'm sick and disgusted to be legally compelled to provide free labor to an organization as parasitic and exploitive as WP Engine. I hope you all get what you and WP Engine wanted.” His username on that Slack has been changed to “gone 💀” Mullenweg began to publicly denounce WP Engine in September, calling the web hosting platform a “cancer” to the larger Wordpress open-source project and accusing it of improperly using the WordPress brand. He’s “at war” with WP Engine, in his own words.  In October, Mullenweg added a required checkbox at login for WordPres.org, forcing users to agree that they are not affiliated with WP Engine. The checkbox asked users to confirm, “I am not affiliated with WP Engine in any way, financially or otherwise.” The checkbox was still present and required on the WordPress.org login page as of Wednesday morning. Automattic and Mullenweg have 72 hours from the order to take it down, according to the judge’s order.  WP Engine sent a cease and desist demanding that he “stop making and retract false, harmful and disparaging statements against WP Engine,” the platform posted on X.  Automattic sent back its own cease and desist, saying, “Your unauthorized use of our Client’s intellectual property has enabled WP Engine to compete with our Client unfairly, and has led to unjust enrichment and undue profits.” WP Engine filed a lawsuit against Automattic and Mullenweg, accusing them of extortion and abuse of power. In October, Mullenweg announced that he’d given Automattic employees a buyout package, and 159 employees, or roughly 8.4 percent of staff, took the offer. “I feel much lighter,” he wrote. But shortly after, he reportedly complained that the company was now “very short staffed.”   All of this has created an environment of chaos and fear within Automattic and in the wider WordPress open-source community.  Within 72 hours of the order, Automattic and Mullenweg are also required to remove the “purported” list of WP Engine customers contained in the ‘domains.csv’ file linked to Automattic’s website wordpressenginetracker.com, which Automattic launched in November and tracks sites that have left WP Engine. It’s also required to restore WP Engine’s access to WordPress.org, including reactivating and restoring all WP Engine employee login credentials to wordpress.org resources and “disable any technological blocking of WPEngine’s and Related Entities’ access to wordpress.org that occurred on or around September 25, 2024, including IP address blocking or other blocking mechanisms.” The judge also ordered Mullenweg to restore WP Engine’s access to its Advanced Custom Fields (“ACF”) plugin directory, which its team said was “unilaterally and forcibly taken away from its creator without consent” and called it a “new precedent” in betrayal of community access. “We are grateful that the court has granted our motion for a preliminary injunction,” a spokesperson for WP Engine told 404 Media. “The order will bring back much-needed stability to the WordPress ecosystem. WP Engine is focused on serving our partners and customers and working with the community to find ways to ensure a vigorous, and thriving WordPress community.” A spokesperson for Automattic told 404 Media: “Today’s ruling is a preliminary order designed to maintain the status quo. It was made without the benefit of discovery, our motion to dismiss, or the counterclaims we will be filing against WP Engine shortly. We look forward to prevailing at trial as we continue to protect the open source ecosystem during full-fact discovery and a full review of the merits.” 

[jexetic]

So Matt Mullenweg has decided that if you’re a host he’s threatened by, he will pull the plug on your access to WordPress.org’s resources. So none of your users (who are just trying to host their websites, by the way) can install any security updates or add new plugins or themes. 

I have absolutely zero desire to touch anything hosted by Automattic. The Jetpack plugin is abysmal. WordPress.com is the worst possible way to host a WordPress site. Matt Mullenweg being hostile towards a major host that people are happy with is pretty scary. Are we all gonna need to eventually fall in line and pay Automattic if we don’t want the CEO to aggressively break functionality of our sites?

[3liza]

20:19 - Right as Matt, who named the for-profit branch of his company "Wordpress.com" and the nonprofit branch "Wordpress.org" finishes explaining that it's too confusing for a for-profit company that works around Wordpress to be named "WP Engine", he makes a brief, pained expression and then his nose starts to bleed freely. He wipes it away, SEES that he's developed a spontaneous nosebleed, and then just continues talking without addressing it.

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[theambitiouswoman]

Hi

How do you start a blog on a website of its own?

What to write in the about and what to publish as the first article?

1. First you pick a niche for your blog.

2. Choose a blogging platform. I recommend Wordpress.org / Wordpress.com. You can also use Blogger.

3. Choose a domain name for your blog and web hosting provider.

4. Download a blog template and design your layout. You can use Envato market place (I use this one but there are loads)

5. You want to start off with about 5 posts. Here are some things you can do to figure out what to write about:

a. Look at your audience. What are their pain points, concerns, and obsessions when it comes to your products?

b. Use sites like Quora where there are millions of people asking questions to get the best answers.

c. Use blog directories to search by topic.

d. Research competing blogs. Other blogs’ ideas for content in your niche can be a valuable source of inspiration.

e. Use Semrush’s Topic Research tool. With the Topic Research tool, you can enter any blog topic to get a list of related topics and questions that people are searching for.

f. Ask your readers. You can get feedback from your readers on what they want to read about by asking them directly or through surveys.

6. You can use your existing platforms, as well as Pinterest, or other social media platforms to promote your blog and drive traffic to it. It can be under your name or you can make an anonymous account.

7. There are several ways you can monetize your blog:

a. Sell a product or service. You can sell your own products or services on your blog, such as ebooks, courses, or coaching services.

b. Create gated content. You can create premium content that is only available to subscribers or members who pay a fee.

c. Promote external brands. You can promote other brands’ products or services on your blog and earn a commission for each sale made through your affiliate link.

d. Offer sponsored content opportunities to other brands. You can offer sponsored content opportunities to other brands that are relevant to your niche.

e. Provide coaching services. You can offer coaching services related to your niche.

f. Market your freelance writing skills. You can market your freelance writing skills and offer writing services to other blogs or websites.

g. Participate in affiliate marketing. You can participate in affiliate marketing programs and earn a commission for each sale made through your affiliate link.

8. You can use a free image website like: unsplash, pixabay, pexels or canva to create content.

hope this helps!

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